Legal Opinion
Nicholas Gentry v. Virgil Lansdown
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 10, 1999No. 97-4034PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
Nicholas Gentry appeals the dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition, claiming that the district court 1 erred in finding that he has failed to exhaust his state remedies.
Gentry pleaded guilty to one count each of first and second degree robbery and was sentenced in 1981 to a total of twenty- five years. On January 14, 1997, the Missouri Board of Probation and Parole (MBPP) notified him of its calculation of his good time credit.
After reviewing this information, Gentry filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in a Missouri circuit court under Mo.Sup. Ct.R. 91…
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